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Matt Ottinger

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Re: Would it work on radio too?
« Reply #15 on: Today at 10:01:02 AM »
One could argue Pyramid would work.
 

One would be wrong.


As I recall on one special episode they played with two blind contestants for an entire episode.
 

Watching blind people play the game is not the same thing as listening to the show on the radio.
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Re: Would it work on radio too?
« Reply #16 on: Today at 10:54:21 AM »
BBC Radio (and NPR) laid the template. Slow and steady quiz questions, host reads out the score at the round break. I think Double Dare '76 is about as much complication as an audio only format could absorb--Millionaire is a could, but part of the excitement is lost in not seeing the reactions.

Part of the allure of Password and Pyramid is that the home audience is let in on the secret to be divined. (Does the in-house crowd know/can they see it from a monitor?)
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Re: Would it work on radio too?
« Reply #17 on: Today at 12:28:49 PM »
Part of the allure of Password and Pyramid is that the home audience is let in on the secret to be divined. (Does the in-house crowd know/can they see it from a monitor?)

"Cover your ears please, the announcer is giving the password to the radio audience."

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Re: Would it work on radio too?
« Reply #18 on: Today at 12:35:06 PM »
Part of the allure of Password and Pyramid is that the home audience is let in on the secret to be divined. (Does the in-house crowd know/can they see it from a monitor?)

"Cover your ears please, the announcer is giving the password to the radio audience."

And I think this is Matt's point to why Pyramid would be a phrenetic disaster. In addition to the rapid-fire clues being given, an announcer has to jump in with the answer each time.

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Re: Would it work on radio too?
« Reply #19 on: Today at 01:37:24 PM »
Part of the allure of Password and Pyramid is that the home audience is let in on the secret to be divined. (Does the in-house crowd know/can they see it from a monitor?)

"Cover your ears please, the announcer is giving the password to the radio audience."

And I think this is Matt's point to why Pyramid would be a phrenetic disaster. In addition to the rapid-fire clues being given, an announcer has to jump in with the answer each time.
I was actually on BC1’s side and figured that at the very least the Winner’s Circle could work. But I couldn’t figure out what would be missing and you all just explained it: they might be looking for THINGS IN YOUR POCKET, but without the visual it could just as easily be THINGS IN A PURSE or THINGS IN A DESK and you gotta take the DJ’s word for it that Pocket is the keyword they want.

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